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Eventide Light; Or, Passages in the Life of Dame Margaret Hoby, Only Child and Sole Heiress of Sir Arthur Dakyns, Kt., of Hackness, Near to Scarborough
Emma Marshall
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781230065601
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... behest?" I felt exceeding angered, and my distaste for Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby grew and strengthened. "I know not how to take your meaning, sir, " I said; "but at least this is clear, if you must needs send such messages to my mistress in her first sorrow you must find another messenger." Then Sir Thomas drew nearer, much nearer than I liked, and whispered--"Rumours are afloat concerning you, Mistress Gundreda, which you would not care to reach your lady's ear; if you refuse to do my bidding, what if I take care that such rumours reach her ear and are believed?" My blushes were no doubt taken for signs of guilt, and Sir Thomas Hoby had the meanness to follow up the advantage. "Forsooth, for young maidens to escape out of window in the dead of night to meet one gallant, and be brought back by another, is not a tale that Mistress Devereux or Sir Arthur Dakyns would care to be told of the bower-woman in attendance on her." I tried to rally now, but my voice trembled as I said--"Do your worst, sir, as befits a gentleman who, ere a beloved husband has been in his grave a month, can insult his sorrow-struck widow with overtures, for which you must find some other messenger than Gundreda Verney." Then I hastily retraced my steps through the pleasance, and was startled to find Bell Dakyns issue from behind a yew hedge. She must have heard all that passed between me and Sir Thomas Hoby. "Well-a-day! whither in such haste, Gundreda? Have you been keeping a daylight tryst this time?" "I know not why you see fit to persecute me thus, " I' said; "for I believe it is from your lips that this scandal chiefly comes." "Now do not get
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Eventide Light; Or, Passages in the Life of Dame Margaret Hoby, Only Child and Sole Heiress of Sir Arthur Dakyns, Kt., of Hackness, Near to Scarborough
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